Irrigating apparatus.



PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

1). ASTLE. 'IRRIGATING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNBSO. 1902..

N0 MODEL.

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Patented September 8, 1903; -5

DAVID ASTLE, or VINlELAND, NEW JERSEY.

flRRlGATINGAPPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,271, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed June 30, 1902. Serial No. 113,777. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatI, DAVID ASTLE, of Vineland, in the county of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in IrrigatingApparatus; and I do hereby declareithe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the 'art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful im roveinents in irrigating apparatus.

The invention has for-its object the pro; duction of a simple and inexpensive portable system of this character by means of which growing crops located in different parts of the same farm-land may be effectively and conveniently watered and the ground prevented from becoming parched or hardened in dry weather.

In carrying out my invention I employ a central reservoir from which leads a main supply-pipe, provided with branch pipes distributed over the land to be watered. Each branch pipe is provided with a series of valved plugs or nipples, to which is attached a hose or other flexible coupling of a portable spraying apparatus. Said spraying appare tus comprises a distributing-pipe mounted upon suitable trucks and provided with a seriesof spraying-nozzles arranged to discharge the water upon'plants and the ground in the immediate vicinity.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective illustrating my invention; Figure 2 is a view of the portable spraying apparatus. Fig. .3 is a detail.

Referring tothe drawings, designates a tank or reservoirfsupplying a main pipe 11 and lateralbranchpipes 12, the latter being provided with laterally-inclined spaced-apart valved nipples 13. p

The spraying apparatus 14 comprises a pipe 15, designed to be connected to any one ofthe valved nipples 13 by means'of a hose lfipcoupledtoone end thereof, said pipe hav ingjspacedepart spraying-nozzles 17. The pipe 15 is supported at eachend by a skeleg ton truck 18 'said trucks each comprising an sides of the members 2 which are hinged at 26, the'upper ends of said of different crops.

connected at convenient purpose of watering growing crops.

approximatelyinverted-V-shaped support 19, the depending members 20 of which telescope with members 21, supporting the swiveled yokes 22, in which are mounted a carrying wheels or casters 23. The telescoping members are held in rigid relation by means of setscrews 24 or the like. Extending from both 1 are brace-rods 25,

rods converging, clamps 27 being arranged to embrace pipe 15, whereby said pipe is supported in position on said'trucks. The depending members 20 are also braced by means of a rod 28.

In practice the spraying apparatus may be easily transported from place to place aboutthe tract of land which is to be watered and coupled with any one of the valved nipples 13. The water is then turned on and sprayed by means of the nozzles 17, reaching the ground and plants in much the same form as a fine rain. When the desired degree of moisturehas been obtained, the water is shut off and the spraying apparatus moved to the The advantages of my invention are at once appare it, and it will be particularly observed that by means of the telescoping members of the trucks the height of the spraying apparatus may be regulated to suit the height I have also found in practice that double the number of plants may be raised on a given piece of ground by employing my apparatus as compared to the number that can be raised where reliance is placed on the rainfall alone.

I am aware that irrigating systems have heretofore been employed comprising a main pipe and vided with spraying-nozzles, and I do not claim the same. ever, I am the first to employ an irrigating apparatus comprising a main pipeand branch pipes leading therefrom, said branchpipes being provided with spaced-apart nipples, whereby a portable spraying-machine can be intervals for the I claim as my invention 1. An irrigating apparatus comprising independent truck-s formed with telescoping next nipple 1 3, and so on until the entire tract has been watered.

So far as I am aware, howmembers, carrying-wheels mounted in said members, a spray-pipe, and means for scour-- ing said pipe on said truck, as set forth.

2. A11 irrigating apparatus comprising in dependent trucks having depending members, yokes telescoping wlth said members,

' members, a pipe resting on said trucks and carrying spraying devices, and adjustable bracerods extending from said telescoping members to said pipe and servingto hold the latter in position, as set forth.

4. An irrigating apparatus comprising in- 2: dependent trucks, means for adjusting the height of said trucks,

trucks and carryingspraying devices, and brace-rods pivoted to said trucks and connected with said pipe, whereby the latter is held in position.

5. An irrigating apparatus com prising independent trucks, means for adjusting the height of said trucks, a pipe resting on said trucks and carrying spraying devices, clamps adjustahly mounted on said pipe, and bracerods pivoted to said trucks and connected to said clamps, whereby said pipe is held in position, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAV ID ASTLE.

Witnesses:

FRANK DE Lnmv, N. HENRY STEVENS.

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